[PHP-DB] Re: explode string variable

[Fredrik de Vibe]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (André Sannerholt) writes:
 Does anybody know how to stop an explosion of a string: Let me explain:
 
 $variable_aray=explode('-', $variable);
 
 I want the variable to be devided in only two other ones! If for example:
 
 $variable=Willy-Brandt-Platz-5
 
 I want to have an array that looks like this:
 
 $variable_array[0] should be Willy
 $variable_array[1] should be Brandt-Platz

I guess you could use the proper regexp functions, like e.g.

  preg_match(/^(\w+)-(.*?)-\d/, $variable, $matches)

then $matches[1] and $matches[2] should (haven't tested) contain what
you want...

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[PHP-DB] Re: explode string variable

[Joel Colombo]

or just :

$word = James-Martin-Smith
$word_break = Array();
$first_dash = strpos($word, '-');
if ($first_dash !== false) {
$word_break[0] = substr($word,0,$first_dash+1);
$word_break[1] = substr($word,$first_dash+1,strlen($word));
}







André Sannerholt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Hi everyone!

 Does anybody know how to stop an explosion of a string: Let me
explain:

 $variable_aray=explode('-', $variable);

 I want the variable to be devided in only two other ones! If for example:

 $variable=Willy-Brandt-Platz-5

 I want to have an array that looks like this:

 $variable_array[0] should be Willy
 $variable_array[1] should be Brandt-Platz


 Regards

 André






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